Re: Exposing host debug capabilities to userspace

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>> Am 24.11.2014 um 13:32 schrieb Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> On 24 November 2014 at 12:26, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 24.11.14 12:35, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>>>>> * KVM ioctl GET_ONE_REG(ID_AA64DFR0_EL1)
>>>>> Nope, guest state API
>>>>
>>>> What's the problem with using ONE_REG for this? After all, the total
>>>> number of available guest debug register is a guest vcpu property of
>>>> some sort.
>>>
>>> Yes, but we don't want to know about properties of the guest
>>> vCPU. In an ideal world QEMU could reserve say half the debug
>>> registers for debugging the VM on startup and have KVM expose
>>> ID registers indicating to the guest that it only had the
>>> other half...
>>
>> Yup, so create another (read-only) ONE_REG that exposes the number of
>> actual guest debug registers.
>
> Does the GET/SET_ONE_REG have the concept of a read-only register? I'd
> be worried by code just blindly iterating over the lists getting thrown
> when one doesn't work.
>

yes, we have invariant cp15 registers.

-Christoffer
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